Stephen Hawking’s ‘mind of God’ tease did his popularity no harm

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God was only ever a metaphor for atheist Hawking Among Professor Stephen
Hawking’s friends, and in the scientific community, few have ever had much
doubt that he is an atheist. Yet the great physicist, mathematician and
cosmologist has long allowed a different impression to linger in the minds
of the wider public (Mark Henderson writes).

He told Reuters in 2007, for example, that he was “not religious in the normal
sense”, hinting that there might be a place in his world view for a little
agnosticism or spirituality. And, of course, there is the famous ending to
his signature popular